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I don't think there are many big UK computer companies that haven't been absorbed by something else. There was Microfocus: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/hom
by mark_undoio 4y ago
I don't think there are many big UK computer companies that haven't been absorbed by something else.
There was Microfocus: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/home https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/home
They owned SuSE at one time. But MicroFocus now have owners outside the UK.
And there was Autonomy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Autonomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Autonomy
Bought by HP, leading to lots of controversy and legal wrangling when they did get what they had expected.
- masfuerte 4y agoMany Autonomy people went to Darktrace. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darktrace https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darktrace
- stevekemp 4y agoMicrofocus is a name I've not heard in a good few years - the last time I heard of them was for their COBOL compilers, on SCO Unixware.
- mark_undoio 4y agoThey're still making COBOL compilers, as far as I know - targeting Linux and with some modern style Dev tools too. I guess it's a migration path for people getting rid of big iron but unable or uninterested in getting rid of the code they ran.